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    Month

    “māsa”

    idea · 2 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    Kārttika · Vaiśākha · Caitra · Kārttikī · Māgha · Māghī · civil month · lunar month · month · sidereal month

    spoken of as

    3 expressions

    Kārttika“month”2 mentions

    Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit) · Viṣṇu Smṛti (Sanskrit)

    > The Daśamī of the bright fortnight of the month of Kārttika, / > one who performs a vow, etc.
    chapter 1

    Māgha“month”1 mention

    Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit)

    > In the month of Māgha, on Tṛtīyā, of molasses and of salt, / > the gift is beneficial, O king, for women and for men.
    chapter 1

    Vaiśākha“month”1 mention

    Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit)

    > The Tṛtīyā of the bright fortnight which is in the month of Vaiśākha is meritorious.
    chapter 1

    in the texts

    VīramitrodayaAncient · Sanskrit

    The unit of time-reckoning classified into lunar, solar, civil, and sidereal kinds, central to the passage's determination of ritual timing.

    "The first is the civil month, the second is called lunar, the third is sidereal, and the fourth is the solar month.
    chapter 1
    > The Tṛtīyā of the bright fortnight which is in the month of Vaiśākha is meritorious.
    chapter 1
    > Having fasted on the Ekādaśī of the bright fortnight of the month of Madhu, / > or on the fifteenth, O hero, or at the ingress into Aries, // > one should undertake the vow of the Vaiśākha bath with the permission of the Brahmins, / > having worshipped Madhusūdana, preceded by a resolve.
    chapter 1

    Viṣṇu SmṛtiAncient · Sanskrit

    A lunar month sacred to the god Agni, marked by specific bathing and dietary vows for purification

    > He who bathes daily for the entire month of *Kārttika* (कार्तिक), with his senses subdued, / > Muttering prayers, eating sacrificial food, and being self-controlled, is freed from all sins.
    chapter 89
    Therefore, he who bathes outside, is devoted to muttering the Gāyatrī mantra, and eats sacrificial food only once during the month of *Kārttika* (कार्तिक), is purified from the sin committed in a year.
    chapter 89
    The month of *Kārttika* (कार्तिक) belongs to the deity Agni.
    chapter 89